Press release
Athens, 29 September 2022
ERGOSE invites to the table of the Competitive Dialogue the candidate contractors for railway projects of 4 billion €
Thessaloniki, 29 September 2022 – ERGOSE launches the Competitive Dialogue for the six €4 billion rail projects that will enhance the commercial and strategic role of the country’s key ports and upgrade Greece’s cross-border interconnection with South-Eastern Europe.
The Board of EPΓOSE invited the candidate contractors who were pre-selected in the first phase of the tender, to come to the Competitive Dialogue next Tuesday, October 4. A development that marks the official start of the next phase of the tender procedure for the six projects of the Competitive Dialogue.
During this stage, the key technical, financial, and legal parameters of the projects will be explored in cooperation with the potential contractors, with the aim of defining the best solutions for their successful implementation.
The preparation of the required final studies will be completed by the Contractor of each project, who will emerge from the tender procedure.
Participation in the dialogue is a necessary condition for the participation of the pre-selected candidates in the next stage (submission of binding offers).
After the Dialogue rounds, the candidate contractors will be invited to submit binding offers in the framework of stage B.II of phase B of the tendering procedure for the award of the contracts.
The Chairman of the Board and CEO of ERGOSE, Christos Vinis, stressed: “Today the Competitive Dialogue is set in motion. We are confident that this method will pay off immediately and will help us to reduce the lead time of these projects, to implement new, innovative, smart solutions and best practices and to adopt the best possible solution from a technical point of view. At the same time, it will ensure that schedules are met at every stage of the implementation of these critical infrastructures that are upgrading the country’s rail network and changing the map of passenger and freight transport in our country.”
For more information you can contact the following contact details:
Tel: 210 5283 492
Email: info@ergose.gr
About ERGOSE:
ERGOSE S.A. was established in 1996 as a subsidiary of OSE and belongs to the public utilities. The company’s mission is to complete a modern railway network that will constitute an important development pillar for the Greek economy and society, contributing to the safety and speed of transport of people, goods and freight. In this context, ERGOSE S.A. currently manages the modernization projects of the railway lines and facilities of OSE co-financed by the Operational Programmes of the National Strategic Reference Framework (NSRF) 2014-2020 from the Connecting Europe Facility (CEF) 2014-2020 as well as projects with purely national funding that are necessary to complete the investments of the co-financed programmes. The company currently employs more than 200 experienced and highly qualified staff, while it has been providing its services for more than two decades, responding effectively and reliably to the implementation of projects through its excellent organization, structure and systems.
